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Alignment of Strategy-Managerial Characteristics and Performance at the Functional Level in Dubai Local Government

In: Business Performance Measurement and Management

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  • Ali Sebaa

    (School of Management, University of Bradford)

  • James Wallace

    (School of Management, University of Bradford)

  • Nelarine Cornelius

    (School of Management, University of Bradford)

Abstract

Demographic managerial characteristics are an important influence on strategy (Miller and Toulouse, 1986; Govindarajan, 1989). Building on previous research, this study is novel in that it investigates the models of executive influence at the level of functional managers. The Miles and Snow (1978) typology is applied to the functional strategy for a public sector organisation, to investigate whether functional units pursuing strategies are led by functional managers with dissimilar attributes, and whether the strategy-manager alignment is related to performance of the functional unit. Findings from 294 Dubai local Government employees showed that several demographic managerial characteristics are associated with strategy types and effect performance.

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  • Ali Sebaa & James Wallace & Nelarine Cornelius, 2010. "Alignment of Strategy-Managerial Characteristics and Performance at the Functional Level in Dubai Local Government," Springer Books, in: Paolo Taticchi (ed.), Business Performance Measurement and Management, chapter 0, pages 311-324, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-04800-5_20
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04800-5_20
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